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- Collection: C. V. Boller's Scrapbook
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Mother's birthday poem.
Eight line poem composed by the Boller family on the occasion of Claude Villette Boller's mother's sixtieth birthday on August 19, 1888. First line by Mother, Mary Boller. Second line by Claude's brother Frank, also known as Jacob Frank Boller.…
Mrs. Mary Boller Laid to Rest.
The article was obtained from The Fort at Lexington [Illinois] which is run by the Lexington Genealogical and Historical Society in the town where Mr. Boller was born. It is an account of the life of Mr. Boller's mother, Mary Plank Boller. It…
Mrs. William M'Kinley, Widow of Dead President.
Page 56 of Mr. Claude Villette Boller's Scrapbook which shows a photo of Mrs. McKinley, widow of the slain President William McKinley.
Partners and Founders of the Firm of Montgomery Ward & Co. in 1872
A leaflet about the Founders of Montgomery Ward & Co., A. Montgomery Ward and George R. Thorne.
Photo of unknown man "In the Garden at Rondebosch Cape Town So. Africa, 1903"
Cropped image of a faded photo on page 90 of Mr. Boller's scrapbook. The photo was taken on a family trip to South Africa in July 1903. It is unknown who the man is but perhaps it is Mr. Boller or his older brother, Willie, who is known to have made…
Piano Recital by the Pupils of Miss Ada A. Boller.
A three page program of a piano recital given by the students of Miss Ada A. Boller, Mr. Boller's sister, on Saturday, June 7, 1902 at 8 p.m. at Ryder Memorial Church on Kimball Avenue near 64th Street in Chicago, Illinois. The first piece was…
Portrait of C. V. Boller circa 1913.
The photo was taken from a page of the C. V. Boller Company's spring 1913/summer 1913 mail order catalog held in the the Lawrence B. Romaine Trade Catalog Collection by the Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library at the University of…
Portrait of C. V. Boller.
Image of Mr. C. V. Boller taken from "Up From the Ranks," Among Ourselves, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of the Employees of Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, vol. 1, no. 9 (June 1904): 435.
Portrait of Claude V. Boller
An illustration of Mr. Claude V. Boller which appeared in the Daily News (Chicago) on December 11, 1906 about the trial regarding the garment workers labor dispute that sparked the bloody 1905 Chicago Teamsters' Strike.
President M'Kinley is Dead.
Page 45 of Mr. Claude Villette Boller's Scrapbook which shows a photo of President William McKinley and a headline from an unknown newspaper announcing President McKinley's death.